THE PHILOKALIA, VOLUME 4
various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos and St. Makarios
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"Through love you are united to God." Nikitas Stithatos, 'On the Inner Nature of Things'
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"St. Paul says, 'From the creation of the world the invisible realities of God, namely, His eternal power and divinity, may be perceived in created things by means of intellection.' (Romans 1:20)" St. Gregory Palamas, 'Topics of Natural and Theological Science'
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"The person blind to the One is utterly blind to everything; but he who sees in the One contemplates all things." St. Symeon the New Theologian, 'Practical and Theological Texts'
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"Man participates in the divine nature, and according to his spiritual self – that is to say, as a spiritual, incorporeal and immortal soul – is an image of God, and possesses an intellect which naturally begets consciousness from its essence." Nikitas Stithatos, 'On Spiritual Knowledge'
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"God's grace and energy is accessible to each one of us, since it is divided indivisibly." St. Gregory Palamas, 'Topics of Natural and Theological Science'
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"The energy that creates individual essence, life and wisdom, and in general makes and sustains created beings, is identical with the divine volitions and the divine participable principles and the gifts of supernal Goodness, the Cause of all." St. Gregory Palamas, 'Topics of Natural and Theological Science'
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"The existential multiplicity and separativeness of thngs is limited and transitory, for, thanks to the universal concatenation, they return to the principal Unity, the supreme Source of All, from which they came." Editors
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"Listen to St. Maximos, who says: 'All immortal things and immortality itself, all living things and life itself, all holy things and holiness itself, all good things and goodness itself, all blessings and blessedness itself, all beings and being itself are manifestly works of God.'" St. Gregory Palamas, 'The Declaration of The Holy Mountain'
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"Man's life is based upon a variety of sciences and skills, each person practising one or another of them and making his contribution….one person pursues one virtue while another follows another path. But all are moving towards a single goal." St. Symeon the New Theologian, 'Practical and Theological Texts'
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"This World Soul belongs to the entire world." St. Gregory Palamas, 'Topics of Natural and Theological Science'
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"God's nature is everywhere." St. Gregory Palamas, 'Topics of Natural and Theological Science'
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"God reveals and manifests Himself in all things." St. Gregory of Sinai, 'On Commandments and Doctrines'
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"The eternal abode embraces all and everything." Nikitas Stithatos, 'On Spiritual Knowledge'
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"Eunomios in his discourses wrote that from created things we may comprehend nothing less than God's essence itself." St. Gregory Palamas, 'Topics of Natural and Theological Science'
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"Incorruptible and imperishable are the following: tears of repentance, acts of charity, compassion, prayer, humility, faith, hope, love." Nikitas Stithatos, 'On Spiritual Knowledge'
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"Once you have brought bondage to the dyad into subjection to the dignity and nature of the One, you will have subjected the whole of creation to God; for you will have brought into unity what was divided and will have reconciled all things." Nikitas Stithatos, 'On Spiritual Knowledge'
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"With respect to other people, you must keep your conscience pure by not doing to them anything that you hate and that you do not want them to do to you." St. Symeon the New Theologian, 'The Three Methods of Prayer'
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"The Sovereign Ruler created all intelligent nature free and self-determining." St. Gregory Palamas, 'Topics of Natural and Theological Science'
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"The divine nature is one and indivisible." Nikitas Stithatos, 'On Spiritual Knowledge'
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"Free will is always part and parcel of the present life." St. Gregory Palamas, 'To the Most Reverend Nun Xenia'
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"God is in the universe and the universe is within God." St. Gregory Palamas, 'Topics of Natural and Theological Science'
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"The spiritual nature given to us by God is…an image of His immortal and eternal glory." Nikitas Stithatos, 'On Spiritual Knowledge'
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"'For there is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars, for one star differs from another star in glory' (1 Cor. 15:41); and yet all of them shine in a single divine firmament." St. Gregory of Sinai, 'On Commandments and Doctrines'
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"There is nothing that prevents us from having faith. For if we want it with all our heart, it will immediately become active in us, since it is God's gift to us and a pre-eminent characteristic of our nature." St. Symeon the New Theologian, 'On Faith'
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"Prayer is God, who accomplishes everything in everyone." St. Gregory of Sinai, 'On Commandments and Doctrines'
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